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The Life Of Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Biography Of An Educator, Mallory Wallace

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Now in her eighties, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lived a remarkable life. Justice Ginsburg has had an enormous impact on the way United States law respects gender equality, transformed the U.S. Constitution, and lead broad social transformation in America (Dodson, 2015). And while all of this is so, before she completed any of this, Justice Ginsburg was known as Professor Ginsburg, spending seventeen years teaching law at two highly respected institutions of higher education. During this time, she created and taught revolutionary courses on Women and the Law, co-write the first-ever published casebook on ...

The Paradox Of Justice John Paul Stevens, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick

Scholarly Works

In the days following Justice John Paul Stevens’s death last year, numerous tributes and remembrances immediately poured forth. Former clerks, journalists, and legal scholars all grasped for the perfect words to capture the man and the justice we had just lost.

Yet many readers of these tributes and homages might have begun to wonder whether they were actually all talking about the same person. Because, taken together, the various portraits appeared to be full of contradictions. In one piece, for example, Justice Stevens is described as a frequent lone dissenter, while in another he is praised for his consensusbuilding ...

Equality Is A Brokered Idea, Robert Tsai

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This essay examines the Supreme Court's stunning decision in the census case, Department of Commerce v. New York. I characterize Chief Justice John Roberts' decision to side with the liberals as an example of pursuing the ends of equality by other means – this time, through the rule of reason. Although the appeal was limited in scope, the stakes for political and racial equality were sky high. In blocking the administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, 5 members of the Court found the justification the administration gave to be a pretext. In this instance, that lie ...

Arthur C. Y. Yao (1906-2004): A Pioneer Chinese Professor At St. Mary's University School Of Law, Robert H. Hu

Faculty Articles

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The Myth Of The Country Lawyer, Judy Cornett

UTK Law Faculty Publications

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Justice Scalia's Bottom-Up Approach To Shaping The Law, Meghan J. Ryan

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Justice Antonin Scalia is among the most famous Supreme Court Justices in history. He is known for his originalism and conservative positions, as well as his witty and acerbic legal opinions. One of the reasons Justice Scalia's opinions are so memorable is his effective use of rhetorical devices, which convey colorful images and understandable ideas. One might expect that such powerful opinions would be effective in shaping the law, but Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy was often too conservative to persuade a majority of his fellow Justices on the Supreme Court. Further, his regular criticisms of his Supreme Court ...

Camden Bibliography A Biography Of A Country Town, Ian C. Willis

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Camden Bibliography is an attempt to highlight some of the research that addresses the notion of Camden as a country town and the subsequent urbanisation of the Local Government Area. The sources listed in the bibliography cover the geographic area of the Camden district as defined by this author in his thesis, War and Community: The Red Cross in Camden, 1939-1945 (pp. 22-24) and the current Camden LGA. This area includes a number of villages to the west of Camden and the Burragorang Valley, which are all integral to the town's history and any interpretations drawn from it.

Governmental Power Versus Individual Liberty, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

Father, Son, and Constitution by Alexander Wohl is a major contribution to legal scholarship. This dual biography focuses on two public figures, each of whom played a leading role in addressing the most challenging legal questions of their day. The subjects of the book are Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark and his son Ramsey Clark, the most liberal attorney general in American history. The Clarks’ stories are told against a backdrop of the continuing American struggle to find the proper balance between governmental power and individual liberty.

The public careers of Tom and Ramsey Clark were largely sequential, but ...

Memoirs, Thomas L. Shaffer

1971–1975: Thomas L. Shaffer

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 My Grandparents 1

Chapter 2 On the Goat Farm 32

Chapter 3 A Little Boy's War 41

Chapter 4 Back to the Mountains 49

Chapter 5 Shelledy School 61

Chapter 6 The Shop 66

Chapter 7 Printer's Devil 77

Chapter 8 Fruita Union High School 86

Chapter 9 My Year with the Monks 95

Chapter 10 U.S.A.F. 113

Chapter 11 Newfoundland 122

Chapter 12 The College 136

Chapter 13 Coming to Notre Dame 144

Chapter 14 Law School 158

Chapter 15 On the Track 165

Chapter 16 The Firm 173 ...

Pauli Murray And The Twentieth-Century Quest For Legal And Social Equality, Serena Mayeri

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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Reflections On The Life And Times Of Alan Watson, Camilla E. Watson

Scholarly Works

The author summarizes the career of Alan Watson, J.D. and University of Georgia Law School faculty member.

They Were Meant For Each Other: Proffessor Edward Cooper And The Rules Enabling Act, Anthony J. Scirica, Mark R. Kravitz, David F. Levi, Lee H. Rosenthal

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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In Memorium: Bernard Wolfman, Michael A. Fitts

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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Legal Education And Civility, Mark Niles

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Remembering Ed Baker, Tobias Barrington Wolff

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

This is a short biographical piece honoring and describing deceased colleague C. Edwin Baker.

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., And The Lessons Of History, Tobias Barrington Wolff

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

This is a biographical piece honoring Professor Geoffrey Hazard and his historical approach to the study of civil practice and procedure.

Remembering Ed Baker, Seth F. Kreimer

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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A Dean's Perspective On Ed Baker, Michael A. Fitts

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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A Wise Man Of The Law, Anthony J. Scirica

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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A Time-Honored Model For The Profession And The Academy, Michael A. Fitts

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law

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Meese, Edwin Iii (1931 - ), Gary L. Mcdowell

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

U.S. attorney general. Born in Oakland, Calif., Meese received a B.A. from Yale (1953) and an LL.B. from the University of California, Berkeley (1956). After working at the Piedmont, Calif., Recreation Department, he became deputy district attorney in Alameda county, Calif., in 1959. In 1967, he joined the staff of Governor Ronald Reagan as legal affairs secretary, holding this post until 1969, when he became Reagan's executive assistant and chief of staff. He also served as the chairman of the Governor's Emergency Operations council during the urban and campus disorders of the 1960s and early ...

Lessons In Legal Ethics From Reading About The Life Of Lincoln, Eugene R. Gaetke

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Abraham Lincoln is an icon of American history. He is prominently named in various opinion polls as among the best Presidents in the history of the United States. His stature as a great President is perhaps best reflected currently in the stream of events constituting a national two-year celebration of his 1809 birth. Even before that, however, scholarly and popular interest and Lincoln’s life and Presidency continued unabated, as indicated by the steady publication and success of books about him. Notable among these works is David Herbert Donald’s best-selling biography of our sixteenth President titled Lincoln.

Although Mr ...

Kamisar, Yale, Jerold H. Israel

Other Publications

Kamisar, Yale (1929- ). Law professor. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., to an immigrant, working-class family of modest means and limited educational background, Kamisar received academic scholarships that enabled him to attend New York University (B.A., 1950) and, after enlisting in the army during the Korean War and winning a Purple Heart, Columbia Law School (LLB., 1954).

"A Frequent Recurrence To Fundamental Principles": A Tribute To Jim Ely, John V. Orth

Faculty Publications

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Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance Of Being Ramsey Clark, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.

Scholarly Works

This article examines the professional life of former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark in an effort to understand the many controversial representations and causes that he has undertaken during his post-government career. I do so through the vehicle of perhaps his most perplexing client choice - deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although Hussein had other competent attorneys prepared and willing to represent him, Ramsey Clark nevertheless felt compelled to volunteer his services to the defense team. Why would he do so, and was his decision an ethically proper one under the circumstances?

These are the specific questions that this Article ...

Foreword: A Symposium Exploring The Modern Legacy Of William Jennings Bryan, Susan Franck

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

William Jennings Bryan, known as "The Great Commoner," is one of the most controversial lawyers to hail from Nebraska.' While he may be best-known as a failed three-time Democratic nominee for U.S. President and the legal defender of creationism at the Scopes Monkey Trial, fundamental aspects of Bryan's life have been overlooked.

In a new biography, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, Professor Michael Kazin re-evaluates Bryan's legacy and charges us to consider the profound impact Bryan had upon the political, economic and legal reality of the United States. The book has been the ...

On The Passing Of My Friend, Dick Wellman, Paul M. Kurtz

Scholarly Works

Writing the introduction to a symposium in memory of a friend is a great honor, of course, and one that I seized immediately, for fear that the Editor in Chief might change his mind.

Leon Wallace Profile

Leon Wallace (1951-1952 Acting; 1952-1966)

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From Pin Point To The Legal Pinnacle, Tory L. Lucas

Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas, author Ken Foskett argues that “the key to unlocking Justice Thomas’s decision making is not dissecting the opinions but understanding the man who wrote them.” Capturing the essence of Judging Thomas, this quote forms the premise for this book review. A person cannot always be understood by his accomplishments. Instead, we sometimes must look beyond the person himself, and look into that person’s family history. That is precisely what this Thomas biography attempts to do.

This book review, entitled From Pin Point to the Legal Pinnacle, briefly outlines ...

A Dream Deferred, Ruth-Arlene W Howe

Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations

Presentation at the MLK Annual Unity Breakfast, Boston College, January 19, 2005.